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DracullSoft™ has released v1.8 of DxIce™ - Game Engine. Download from the Forum.. IsoMetric path finder and new tutorial for getting started in VB.NET 2008

DxIce™ v1.3. Simple 3D, X mesh load, load Texture from Resource files all in Dx9Ice with DirectX9c support. now includes support for iso metric games! See the screnshots!

DxIce™ v1.4+v1.5. New Game: Yet Another Space Shooter with source in VB6 and VB.NET 2008 express. New Game Scene Manager and Scene Transition effects.

DxIce™ v1.6+v1.7. Crisp render and better bitmap fonts + 2 new samples and a new 3D Demo. Improved performance

DxIce™ - Game Engine. Imagine It! Code It! Enjoy It! * ICE *

DxIce™ - Game Engine targets commercial game development with focus on independent games and tools developers. DxIce is especially designed to be used for rapid development of multimedia and games with focus on 2D / 2.5D / simple 3D Mesh / Iso Metric graphics, Music and Video.

Click here to download a ZIP file with the Iso Game Demo. Unzip and read the readme.txt

FX Demo from the SDK. Download from the Forum.

Click here to download a ZIP file with the YASS Sample Game. Unzip and read the readme.txt

Click here to download ZIP file with v1.80 demo suite (12 MB). Unzip and read the readme.txt

DxIce SDK Download size: 12 MB
DxIce Engine Deployment Size: less than 1 MB
Run on: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Windows7
Royalty: Free! - also for commercial games
Requirements: DirectX9c and VB6 runtimes - both are already installed on most systems.
Development Tools: Any program language that can do COM such as VB6 or VB.NET 2008/2010 Express.
Services: If you need help debugging your commercial game or require a special feature or fix then contact us.

For more details take a look at the feature highlights below.

• Easy and smooth update from DxGame Engine and Dabooda Game Engine!
• Full Screen or Window mode!
• Window mode is sizeable!
• Easy Deployment as DxIce Engine is a single ActiveX DLL!
• DirectX9 Hardware Accelerated!
• Fixed or Time-Phased frame rates!
• Sprite and Overlay Robots for shoot and forget programming!
• BeautifulFX and Explosions!
• Timed Events!
• Resouce Packing and encryption to protect game resources!
• Background Tiler!
• Flexible Texture manager!
• Smooth multi-layered Maps with Autosnap and Movement with Sprite!
• System and Bitmap Raster Fonts!
• Vertex Groups for easy semi 3D!
• Buildin Sound and Music engine via DirectX
• Oggs, acc+, mp3 support provided the matching ax filters are installed!
• Video Overlays!
• Easy Keyboard, Mouse and Joystick handling!
• Great looking Screen wave folding to enhance explosions fx!
• ScreenShot Saving feature!
• Render to Texture!
• Automatically game pause when window is out of focus
• New in V1.1: Iso Metric Graphics!
• New in V1.1: Tiler. Great for animated background like space gaze, moving water or clouds used with 2D and Iso Map!
• New in V1.1: Mouse support with sprites in windowed and full screen mode!
• New in V1.2: Improved Screen handling!
• New in V1.2: Faster!
• New in V1.2: Loops and improved Sprites support!
• New in V1.2: DirectX9 support!
• New in V1.2: Bass music and sound support including tracker mods!
• New in V1.3: Simple 3D rendering!
• New in V1.3: 3D Mesh loading and rendering!
• New in V1.3: 3D Mesh scale, rotation and position in 3D!
• New in V1.3: Basic Z Buffering for 3D objects!
• New in V1.3: Texture loading from Compiled VB6 Resource File!
• New in V1.3: 3D Camera!
• New in V1.4: Line and Box Draw in Gradient Colors and transparency!
• New in V1.4: New Sample Game with VB6 source : Air Hockey!
• New in V1.4: VB.Net 2008 Express Game!
• New in V1.4: Game Scene Manager improving game code structure!
• New in V1.4: Automatic Fade in and Fade out between Game Scenes!
• New in V1.4: Simple 2D Physics including force, velocity and rotation!
• New in V1.4: Improved FX interface with Delay and Progress!
• New in V1.4: Enhances to Sprite Robots!
• New in V1.4: New Collision Detection!
• New in V1.5: YASS! Yet Another Space Shooter sample game
• New in V1.5: YASS comes with source code in VB6 and VB.NET 2008 express!
• New in V1.5: IceSprite class enhanced with easy to use CatMullRom Spline Paths!
• New in V1.5: IceSprite class enhanced with new automatic "Shoot" method!
• New in V1.5: IceTiler enhanced with more control options and Shake effect!
• New in V1.5: New Fx Effects including Sprite tails!
• New in V1.6: More Crispy Look to the rendering of sprite's and tilers
• New in V1.6: Fixed and Updated IceFont with Scaling and Colors to fonts!
• New in V1.6: Direct 2D & 3D Texture Blit!
• New in V1.6: Improved Camara and Perspective control in 3D!
• New in V1.6: InitializeDisplay enhanced with auto select or fixed monitor refreshrates
• New in V1.7: New Beach Ball Bouncing sample that show how to toggle full screen and windowed mode and widescreen display
• New in V1.7: Bitmap Font typewriter feature. Nice for diplaying info on screen in a cool way
• New in V1.7: BlitTextureUV, BlitTexture and BlitTexture3D complete control on how textures are blit into 2D and 3D space
• New in V1.7: Make Screenshots in JPG, BMP, PNG, DDS or DIB
• New in V1.7: Spline paths in 2D including line rendering and multiple cycles
• New in V1.8: Simple sprite shadows and extra user properties
• New in V1.8: Sounds and Game time is automatically paused if game is minimized or out of focus
• New in V1.8: Improved performance for Rotated Sprites
• New in V1.8: Iso Path Finder and several render options for terrain and path
• New in V1.8: Iso Game Extended to show how to use the Path Finder
• New in V1.8: New Simple Spirte Robot Sample
• ... and many other minor enhancements...

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